of shipping in plymouth stivers cut. i'm pretty this lecturer and maritime economics at the university of plymouth over in copenhagen as christian beauty, who is a professor of international relations at the university of copenhagen. welcome to the program. thanks so much for speaking to us on inside story. the guy over to you for us, how much more strain will this disruption from china put on the international shipping industry after? of course, having to deal with a critical shortage of shipping containers due to the pandemic from last year. and that week long blockage and this was can out earlier this year. well thing our estimate says this, this could be at least 3 times worse than the instant, but the given which blocked the suez canal for 6 days. and then we begun to success series of this, throughout the pandemic ports of shut down. we've also had our crews heavily impacted with the cobra 19 pandemic in the sense they haven't been able to change out when they should be changing out. so these are community things which are now having a real world impact on the supply chain, like with the morning for over a year now. and le